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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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East Milwaukee Street in Janesville

Date: 1870
Description: View from along right side of bridge of Milwaukee Street looking east in Janesville. The Myers House is located at the top of the hill. There is a sign for...
Photograph

Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 1939
Description: The Fauerbach Brewery, with Lake Monona in the background.
Photograph

Hausmann Brewing Company Malt House

Date: 1899
Description: Exterior view of the Hausmann Brewing Company's Malt House, 1603 Sherman Avenue.
Photograph

Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 1939
Description: The old Fauerbach Brewery at 651-653 Williamson Street. The corner entrance is flanked by columns.
Photograph

Oldest Standing Brewery

Date: 1935
Description: The second brewery to be built in Wisconsin and the oldest still standing (at the time the photograph was taken).
Photograph

Mineral Spring Brewery

Date: 1910
Description: Mineral Spring Brewery, located on 272 Shake Rag Street, erected in 1850 (currently 276 Shake Rag Street). A group of four men are posing outdoors on the r...
Postcard

Blatz Brewery Painting

Date: 1893
Description: Reproduction of an oil painting at the Blatz Brewing Company depicting a happy barmaid holding overflowing steins of beer as she dances atop a barrel of Bl...
Postcard

High Life in Milwaukee

Date: 1911
Description: Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th...
Photograph

Entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The ornate entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and ...
Photograph

Shullsburg Brewery

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Description: Exterior rear view of the Shullsburg Brewery.
Photograph

Joseph Schlitz

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Description: Engraved portrait of Joseph Schlitz. His signature is beneath the image.
Photograph

Yahara River

Date: 1897
Description: View along shoreline of the Yahara River, a small building along the shoreline near a road on the left. The Malt House is in the far background, prior to t...
Photograph

Gettelman Brewery

Date: 1880
Description: The brewery was built by George Schweickhart after he came to the city in 1856. He purchased three acres of land on the then Watertown Plank road, now just...
Photograph

Melms-Schandein Residence

Date: 1876
Description: 462 Virginia Street. The buildings on the left are the old Melms Brewery located at the south side of the Menomonee Valley. About 1857 C.T. Melms organized...
Photograph

Schiltz Brewery

Date: 07 1952
Description: Train cars are parked near a tall building with a fire escape.
Print

Looking North from Reed Street

Date: 1860
Description: Image drawn by Franz Hölzlhuber of early Milwaukee settlement with a horse-drawn carriage, as well as industry and a railroad. The text on the image reads:...
Photograph

View of Center of City

Date: 1964
Description: Elevated view of city looking west, showing breweries and the center of the city.
Photograph

Williamson Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view east from the corner of South Blair and Williamson Streets. On the left is Joe's News Store (Joseph J. Kuhn) 520 E. Wilson Street and a sign for th...
Photograph

Yahara River

Date: 1918
Description: View from shoreline of people rowing on the Yahara River on Madison's East Side. The Malt House, 1603 Sherman Avenue, is in the background.

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